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Very few of the people praising Corbusier actually choose to live between his concrete slabs when given the opportunity. After such a large part of the populat
by mihaic 3y ago
Very few of the people praising Corbusier actually choose to live between his concrete slabs when given the opportunity.
After such a large part of the population is complaining about the state of modern architecture, I have no idea why the industry keeps going down the same pseudo-intellectual routes.
- ggm 3y agoIf you read the article this is precisely what many of the architects they interviewed say.
- mihaic 3y agoMea culpa, I did get emotional after the first paragraphs.
- ggm 3y agoIt's a valid point. I mean yes I was a bit terse, but really? your initial "hot take" so to speak aligns with where modern architecture has got to: He was revolutionary, he was iconoclastic, he was also a bit bombastic and he didn't live to understand the consequences of some of his theories which are a-social and demand cars more than the 15 minute city goals we now look for. I really value some of his stuff. At a distance even the towers can be impressive, and people still love the Marseille complex, and his church. A point made in the article is that not everything he did was on mega-scale. It wasn't all Brasilia and Chandigarh. He helped launch modernism and I live in a unit with floor to ceiling glass wall-windows, and a flow from the outside into my living spaces. Bits of his design sensibilities, Gropius, Mies Van Der Rohe are in that.